When we work in groups sometimes it is hard to communicate with people, whether a group member is not participating, making mistakes constantly, or doing all the work it defeats the idea of a group. Philip and Jonathan usually ended up becoming my lab partners and at many times one of us would be doing nothing while the other two are rushing around grabbing equipment. Even worse only one of us may be acting while the others sit and watch. This lowers the efficiency of completing a lab and generally I found us ending up as the last ones to finish. Moreover, when writing up the lab we debated about the uncertainties with the measurements at times and often times one of us was wrong and unwilling to accept it until proven wrong by Ms.Knowles but it’s not so bad when we also learn to accept what’s right and contribute to the groups idea and not be set on one’s own idea. I remember with the "Which is the best fuel?" Lab write up the group disagreed on the uncertainties, 0.2, 0.1, 0.5 and all these digits were going all over the place but we achieved consensus...after asking Ms.Knowles.
Below is a picture of the corrected quantitative data part of the lab write up.
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